The composer recently discussed how the Skye Boat Song was chosen as Outlander's title music, revealing it was a mutual decision along with executive producer Ron D. Moore.

Bear said he drew upon his passion for the history and songs of the Jacobite uprising - something which had interested him since high school.

He told Sci-Fi Bulletin: "He (Ron) was really shocked: he’d been pitching and developing the show, and had been mastering this one-minute history of what the Jacobite uprising was. He went, “You know what a Jacobite is?!” I said I’d send him a couple of my favourite songs.

"I had recorded some Scottish folk tunes on accordion, some of them going back to my early college days. I sent him some of these lovely simple folk tunes on accordion and one of them was the Skye Boat Song. He wrote back and said he really loved it and it should be the main title."

Fans were excited to hear Bear was recruited again to work on Season 2 of the hit Starz series, which is set to premiere in the US on April 9.

The new season, which is based on Diana Gabaldon's second novel Dragonfly in Amber, and will see Jamie and Claire head to France in an attempt to stop the Jacobite rebellion and the Battle of Culloden.

Ahead of the show's return, you can take a look at what's to come in Season 2 with our gallery below.